Thread by @whstancil

There remains literally no evidence whatsoever that “wokeness” — whatever that even means — is harming Democrats. But white media men keep writing these stories suggesting that the critical weakness of the party is its reluctance to condone racism

We are watching, in real time, a bunch of white guys, massively overrepresented in media and politics, even among nominal liberals, attempt to start a narrative that all this thinking-about-race-and-gender stuff has gone too far. Not hard to see what’s happening

The political leanings of communities of people are HEAVILY guided by the demographics of those communities. Top tier political media is an area run completely by middle-aged white men. Shocker of shockers, come to find out they all think that Democrats take racism too seriously

Ultimately the reason they all kind of sound like Trumpy Republicans is that they share the most important determinant of Trump support with most of the GOP’s base

Here’s the other thing that seems so revealing to me: how many countless articles like this are going to be written without ever defining what “woke” is or where the boundaries lie? Seems pretty important!

Instead ALL of the analysis adopts this winking “you know what I mean” approach. It’s just assumed everyone is on the same wavelength, that it’s obvious when people are being unreasonable. The other place you see this? Rooms full of white dudes, talking privately